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Anthropocene

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations

October 9, 2021 by John Yunker

I’m pleased to mention that EcoLit Books contributor The Center for Humans and Nature has published a five-book set called Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. Kinship: Belonging in …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Oceans, Sustainability

Book Review: The Longest Story

October 4, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Upon reading the synopsis, Richard Girling’s The Longest Story appears to take on an ambitious task: cover the relationship between humans and non-human animals throughout all of history in under …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, History, Nonfiction

Book Review: A Most Remarkable Creature

December 28, 2023October 1, 2021 by John Yunker

In A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey Jonathan Meiburg has crafted an epic ode to the caracara, a long-overlooked …

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Categories Alfred A. Knopf, Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, What we're reading

How to Be Animal: Lessons in evolution for the human animal

September 11, 2021September 10, 2021 by John Yunker

Perhaps it is human nature to rank things. We rank cities and states and countries. We have the best restaurants and best movies; we even have best friends. And when …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Pets, Sustainability, What we're reading

New Environmental Books of Note

August 20, 2021 by John Yunker

Two new books to keep an eye out for. First, a story collection from Black Lawrence Press featuring a story by our own JoeAnn Hart! Fire & Water: Stories from …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Sustainability, Trees, What we're reading

Introducing the journal Ecological Citizen

August 10, 2021 by John Yunker

We recently added The Ecological Citizen to our growing list of outlets for environmental writing. Editor Joe Gray was kind enough to answer a few questions about the journal: Tell …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Q&A, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Claw & Blossom

July 28, 2021 by John Yunker

Here’s a new journal in our list of outlets for environmental writing. Claw & Blossom is an online seasonal journal of short literary prose and poems that touch upon the …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Sustainability, Writing Opportunities

New writing contest: Sassafras Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing

June 15, 2021 by John Yunker

Always exciting to see a new award established for environmental writing. This one is for regionally focused writing in the states of Missouri, Arkansas or Louisiana. The Sassafras Award for …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Sustainability, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: HOMES by Moheb Soliman

June 9, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In HOMES, interdisciplinary poet Moheb Soliman traces the intricate borders of the Great Lakes—Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior (HOMES)—and explores the meanings of home, place, and identity in the spaces …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Poetry

UK Writing Opportunity: Sustainability First Writing Prize

June 5, 2021 by John Yunker

A wonderful writing opportunity for those of you in the UK: The Sustainability First Writing Prize 2021 is open to British writers and international writers living, working or studying in …

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Categories Anthropocene, Contest, Ecology, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

May 5, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Véronique Tadjo’s slender, haunting novel In the Company of Men offers myriad points of view—human and nonhuman—in its story of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Published in …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Trees
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